Basic Racial Attitudes Toward Whites in the Oklahoma All-Negro Community

This paper focuses attention upon the psychic qualities of Negroes who have voluntarily isolated themselves from the dominant culture. The all-Negro community in Oklahoma was conceived as a social experiment. It is an attempt by Negroes to escape the psychological pressures experienced in racially mixed southern communities. A "pattern of avoidance" characterizes the basic racial attitudes of the residents of these communities. There are, however, certain differences between upper and lower classes in the expression of attitudes. Nevertheless, all residents, completely assimilated into the societal structure of the all-Negro society, are quite self-conscious of the eculiarities of their culture

Criminology · Expression (computer science) · Psychic · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Situating Whites and Whiteness in the Work of Mozell C. Hill

  Open Access•Karla Slocum•Transforming Anthropology•2009

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